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whitepaper The NSW Health Department Introduces New Business Intelligence Solutions to Provide Holistic Patient-Centric Data Analysis2009-11-08 Microsoft
  NSW Health manages healthcare for the state of New South Wales. It comprises 232 public hospitals across eight geographical areas, as well as numerous radiology and specialist units. NSW Health wanted to obtain holistic patient data across the continuum of care and provide hospital and area health managers with relevant views of data. They also wanted to improve patient care and flow by providing up-to-date information at the point of care. After investigating a range of business intelligence options, the tender was awarded to Microsoft who signed an agreement for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to cover around 90,000 employees, across 40,000 desktops and 2,500 servers.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper GuestLogix Gains Deeper Business Insight With the Help of SQL Server 20082009-11-03 Microsoft
  GuestLogix Inc. is a leading provider of onboard retail technology to the passenger travel industry. The Toronto-based company delivers innovative products and services to enhance the customer experience and drive ancillary revenue growth for airlines. The company wanted capitalize on current market trends and increased industry demand for onboard retail solutions. To achieve this, GuestLogix first needed to improve its Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting capabilities and enable staff to access a single view of operational performance to evaluate sales efforts and make meaningful forecasts. With this in mind, GuestLogix has developed a new BI environment based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Warid Telecom Eases Database Administration Load, Supports Two-Fold Increase in Subscribers2009-11-01 Oracle
  A two-fold surge in subscriber numbers in fewer than two years prompted Warid Telecom to review its technology infrastructure. The company had been running business-critical applications on a two-node server cluster but found that this configuration was insufficient to support the increase in processing loads. It also wanted to ease the database administration task. In August 2009, Warid Telecom migrated to a three-node server cluster based on Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters. The configuration has improved system availability, provided better fault tolerance, and can be easily scaled to support business growth. The management task has also eased with the adoption of Oracle Database options such as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Oracle Partitioning, and Oracle Automatic Storage Management.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Aviva Insurance Company, ZAO Processes Claims Five Times Faster With Integrated Data Warehouse2009-11-01 Oracle
  Aviva Insurance Company wanted to ensure the company uses the same data and data standards across multiple sites and systems and provide claims handling agents with access to instant, accurate information to accelerate the processing time of insurance claims. The challenge was to reduce effort involved in management reporting and enhance the capabilities for analyzing industry-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Improve overall collaboration with business partners. Aviva Insurance Company established a corporate data standard and a single database of business partners, consolidating data from heterogeneous systems using specifically-developed migration algorithms and reduced efforts required for data collection and processing by two-thirds, resulting in significant annual savings.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper US Oncology Improves Care, Grows Business, and Cuts IT Costs With New Patient Management System2009-11-01 Oracle
  US Oncology, Inc. wanted to improve the company's ability to support patients throughout their treatment and improve outcomes through education, advice, and monitoring and reduce the need for avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations and the associated risk and costs through improved interaction with patients. The challenge was to strengthen the company's ability to set up and service reimbursement-support and Patient-Assistance Programs (PAPs). US Oncology, Inc. selected Oracle's Siebel applications to create an integrated patient management system that supports improved outcomes and operational efficiency, as well as cost-control initiatives.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper MVS Television S.A. de C.V. Integrates Information and Increases Its Competitiveness2009-11-01 Oracle
  MVS Television wanted to fully integrate quality financial information to allow for rapid and informed executive decision making and accelerate response times for consolidating and accessing financial information to increase the company's productivity. The challenge was to improve the organization's financial procedures and operating efficiency of its businesses and maintain the company's competitive advantage by providing the highest possible client service and improving its business intelligence capacity. MVS Television worked with Oracle Partner ERP Soluciones to implement integrated Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand applications, consolidating quality financial information online and in real time.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Essent Consolidates IT Infrastructure to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by 50%2009-11-01 Oracle
  Essent wanted to increase computing capacity to better service the processes and reduce costs by standardizing and consolidating IT infrastructure. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance for business-critical systems such as customer registration and energy consumption forecasting, which is performed every five minutes. Essent worked with Oracle Partner IBM Nederland B.V. to implement an Oracle Database grid with Oracle Real Application Clusters on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server consisting of 28 Intel Xeon servers, each with eight cores and 32 gigabytes of RAM.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper PEMEX Creates Document Workflow Solution With SQL Server 2008 and BizTalk Server2009-10-09 Microsoft
  Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), the state-owned oil and gas company based in Mexico City, has 150,000 employees and generated U.S.$98.2 billion in 2008. Some years ago PEMEX Exploration and Production, the company's largest business unit, created its own document processing and workflow management application using early versions of Microsoft SQL Server database software and Microsoft BizTalk Server. As success of the internally developed application spread, response times declined. To gain scalability, PEMEX Exploration and Production upgraded the solution to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) and BizTalk Server 2006 R2. CPU utilization has dropped and the company has gained the scalability it needs to roll out the solution to the rest of PEMEX.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Rockwool Group Consolidating 400 Servers With Enrollment for Application Platform2009-10-07 Microsoft
  Rockwool Group, a leading manufacturer of stone wool insulation products, generated U.S.$2.7 billion in 2008 revenue from the efforts of its more than 8,000 employees. The company operates 21 factories on three continents and has sales and distribution offices around the world. As the company has enjoyed enviable growth, its IT infrastructure blossomed with hundreds of servers including more than 160 database servers. The company wanted to consolidate 9 terabytes of data onto the Microsoft Application Platform, but was concerned about increasing IT expenditures during a global economic downturn. Rockwool is taking advantage of the Microsoft Volume Licensing Enrolment for Application Platform, a flexible new multi-year agreement that allows an organization to deploy as many licenses of selected software as it needs for a set yearly fee.   
whitepaper GGZ NHN Improves Performance and Availability of McKesson's Electronic Patient Dossier Horizon GGZ2009-10-01 Oracle
  GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord (GGZ NHN) wanted to improve primary system performance and stability of McKesson's electronic patient dossier, Horizon GGZ, and enable interactive operations by users while the organization runs batch processes, including monthly invoice runs and improve availability during planned and unplanned outages. The challenge was to achieve a more scalable and extendable environment to support the business. GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord (GGZ NHN) worked with Oracle Partner Dell and Oracle Consulting to replace hardware and make it more uniform, implementing a four-node extended cluster on Windows across two data centers using Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters and improved system performance, scalability, and availability, for phasing out of the HP UNIX environment and simplifying system management.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Data Tools